Janelle Jenstad
Janelle Jenstad, Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, is the General Editor and coordinator of The Map of Early Modern London project. She received her PhD in English (Renaissance Drama) from Queen's University in 2000. She has taught at Queen's University, the Summer Academy at the Stratford Festival, the University of Windsor, and the University of Victoria. She has published articles in the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Early Modern Literary Studies, Elizabethan Theatre, Shakespeare Bulletin: A Journal of Performance Criticism, and The Silver Society Journal.
Book chapters have appeared (or will appear) in Institutional Culture in Early Modern Society (Brill, 2004),
Approaches to Teaching Othello (Modern Language Association, 2005),
Shakespeare, Language and the Stage. The Fifth Wall: Approaches to Shakespeare from Criticism, Performance and Theatre Studies (Arden Shakespeare, 2005),
Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate, 2007), New Directions in the Geohumanities: Art, Text, and History at the Edge of Place (Routledge, forthcoming 2011), and Teaching Early Modern English Literature from the Archives (MLA, forthcoming).
Active research areas include:
- geohumanities, early civic maps and literature; mapping literature
- text encoding, textual studies, and research methods
- civic pageantry, representations of London, and livery companies and theatre
Past/occasional research areas include:
- childbirth and christening in early modern England
- merchants, goldsmiths, usury, gold, and money in early modern culture and theatre
- Shakespeare in performance, Shakespeare in Canada, feminist issues in performance, editing for performance, adaptations of Shakespeare
Contact
Telephone: +1 (250) 721-7245
Email: jenstad@uvic.ca
Email: jenstad@uvic.ca
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.